Winner of the 1998 National Poetry Series, judged and selected by Robert Bly. In this forceful collection, Murray observes the character of the passing century and some of the lives that have been part of it: the struggle of a woman against drought in South Africa; the death of a soldier on the march to Bataan. The narrator of these poems then turns inward --she examines what she's become: an artist at ease with her imaginative life, as well as a woman grown wise enough to see that most of her life lies behind her. In the last section, Murray stares at death as it coils inside a cage, and celebrates the courage that allows us to be its graceful opponents. In Looking for the Parade, Joan Murray establishes herself as one of our most moving and dramatic poets.
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Joan Murray is that rare poet who is really interested in the real world. . . . Her poetry is skilled, compassionate, wary, and passionate. -- Robert Bly
This is a collection of perception, range, acceptance, and grace. -- Jane Hirshfield --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
This is a collection of perception, range, acceptance, and grace. -- Jane Hirshfield --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Author of The Same Water and Queen of the Mist, Joan Murray's work has been published in Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Ms., The Nation, the New York Times, and Paris Review.
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Too cool,
By Nancy Jorgenson (The Blue Ridge Mts) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Looking for the Parade: Poems (Hardcover)
Great stuff. She has a way with words. The work is dramatic, arresting, bone-chilling, Kafkaesque, and cute. Read it. It's better that getting hit in the head with a pizza.
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